Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old classic quotes, classic sayings, and classic proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.Leonard Maltin
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.Ezra Pound
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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.W. E. B. Du Bois
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.Italo Calvino
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.Mark Twain
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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.Robert Ardrey
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There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation. José Ortega y Gasset
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.Erica Jong
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There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.Orson Welles
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.Yelawolf
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Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.Robert Gottlieb
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A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.Alfred Kazin
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A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.Italo Calvino
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A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy.Gina Prince-Bythewood
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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.Stephen Leacock
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You look up after many years and you find that a film has become a classic because it's meaningful to people and alive, decade after decade.Woody Allen
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A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.Jean-Louis Barrault
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All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.Helena Bonham Carter
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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.Clifton Fadiman
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The classic literature is always modern.Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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To be a classic, a novel should be original.Ruth Rendell
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A great song will be great forever – it’s timeless and classic in that way.Kacey Musgraves
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Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them.Scott Rudin
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Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.Greenhaven Press
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Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat.Joe Bastianich
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The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.Lisa See
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Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in.Ned Rorem